The apocalypse revealed : in which are disclosed the mysteries there foretold : being a translation of his work entitled Apocalypsis revelata / by Emanuel Swedenborg.

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg
Date:
1890
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Credit: The apocalypse revealed : in which are disclosed the mysteries there foretold : being a translation of his work entitled Apocalypsis revelata / by Emanuel Swedenborg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and their sins are remitted for His sake, who by His death made satisfaction for us, and that God the Father imputes this to believers for righteousness before Him; that this faith, that Christ suffered and died for us, is not only an historical know- ledge, but also a cordial assent, confidence, and trust, that sins are gratuitously remitted for Christ’s sake, and that they are justified; and that at this time these three things concur, gratuitous promise, the m.erit of Christ as a price, and propitia - tion. That faith is the righteousness by which we are counted just before God by reason of the promise; and that to be justified is to be absolved from sins, and that it may also be called a kind of quickening and regeneration; that faith is counted to us for righteousness, not because it is so good a work, but because it apprehends the merit of Christ. That the merit of Christ is His obedience, passion, death, and resurrection ; that it is necessary there should be sodiething by which God can be approached, and that this is nothing else but faith by which reception is effected. That faith, in the act of justification, enters by the word and by the hearing, and that it is not the act of man, but that it is the operation of the Holy Spirit, and that man does not co-operate any more than a statue of salt, a stock, or a stone, doing nothing from himself, and knowing nothing of it; but that after the act he co-operates, yet not with any will of his own ill spiritual things; in things natural, civil, and moral, it is otherwise: but that they can so far proceed in things spiritual as to will what is good, and to feel delight in con- sequence, yet this is not from their own will, but from the Holy Spirit, and that thus they co-operate not from their own powers, but from new powers and gifts begun in them by the Holy Spirit in their conversion; and that in real conversion a change, renovation, and motion are produced in the understanding and heart of man. That charity, good works, and repentance, do not enter into the act of justification, but that they are necessary in a state of justification, especially by reason of God’s command, and that by them are merited the corporeal rewards of this life, but not the remission of sins, and the glory of everlasting life, because faith alone, without the works of the law, justifies and saves. That faith in act justifies man, but faith in state re- novates him; that in renovation by reason of God’s command, the works reputed good, as pointed out by the decalogue, aro necessary to be performed, because it is the will of God that cariTal lusts should be restrained by civil discipline, for which reason He has provided doctrine, laws, magistrates, and punish- ments ; that, therefore, it is consequently false, that by worlds we merit remission of sins and salvation, and that works have any effect in preserving faith; and that it is also false, that man is reputed just on account of the rational justice or righteousness
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